eraser8:MBrady: Why is gay marriage a "civil rights" issue? It is not, since they are free to marry anyone of the opposite sex.

And, before Loving v Virginia. Whites were free to marry anyone white and blacks -- and other non-whites -- were free to marry anyone not white.

Wasn't that accommodation enough? Shouldn't that be sufficient for anybody? Does it really matter that you're not allowed to marry the person you love most in the world? After all, you're allowed to marry somebody. Isn't that good enough? Isn't that all the Constitution requires?

Homesexuals want to be considered a class of people by depicting themselves as victims who, like blacks, have been denied civil rights. That way, they can make people like you think that those who oppose their political agenda are discriminating against them rather then their behavior. According to people like you, conservatives are all bigots on par with racists and are opposed to fairness itself.

Nonsense! The comparison to homosexuality to race is completely invalid. Skin color is benign. Sexual behavior is not. Having a certain skin color does not hurt anyone. Homosexual behavior can and does hurt others. Sexual behavior is always a choice, race never is. You will find many former homosexuals, but you will not find a former black person.

Homosexuality is not an identity nor class, it is a behavior. Homosexuals are not a class of people anymore than heterosexuals are a class of people. We are males and females, not straights and gays.

Why should we start classifying people by their desires? Because if we start to classify people by what they desire to do sexually, then why not give people with all sexual desires special marriage rights? On what grounds can you say that same sex marriage is fine, but marriage involving polygamy, incest, and bestiality is not?

Actually moved (back) here after being in Glenn for a couple of years. At least DN has incredible natural beauty, but Glenn, while it has a few beautiful parts, is very, very "meh" in the natural wonder category.

Ah, yeah...DN is a beautiful place. I can't handle the weather up there, though...Seattle...south.

Rik01:This whole Gay thing is starting to become similar to how it was for the blacks before and during the Civil Rights movement.

Alabama was one of the states which would argue stubbornly how blacks were inferior and didn't deserve the rights given to other folks. They held on to many of their segregation laws long after other states had repealed their own.

It was a long, hard fight for Civil Rights and, apparently, Gays are going to have to face a similar one, encountering the same excuses that have been brought up for segregation over the decades. They're going to face massive walls of STUPID on all sides no matter what they do.

Why is gay marriage a "civil rights" issue? It is not, since they are free to marry anyone of the opposite sex.

Stone Meadow:Krymson Tyde: For the first time in my life I am looking for a job outside of the southeast US.

I've gotten just that fed up with the ignorance and bigotry here.

If you move to Cali be sure to settle in a blue county. The Derp in our red counties takes a back seat to no one.

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Come to think of it, though, the blue counties are the nice ones to live and work in anyway. So there's that.

I live in one of the (light) red counties. It's not really too bad. It goes R for national offices, but the last two elections, even with Balrog HUSSEIN Fartb0ng0, it was like 53-47 or closer. Clinton won the county in 1992, but only because of Perot (who got 30%).

But outside the largest "city," where I live (population 7500), it's fkn backwoods Mississippi.